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The Seven Day Switch
by Kelly Harms
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I definitely wouldn't have picked this up if it wasn't an Amazon First Reads title (and the most remotely-appealing sounding one of the bunch), but it was a decently entertaining read. The whole premise is very cishet-middle-class soccer/ softball mom, which isn't inherently bad but does mean that — apart from a few brief discussions of childhood poverty from one POV protagonist and a handful of race-related comments from a secondary character of color — there's an underlying level of unexamined privilege. While I (mostly) applaud the ultimate message, which you can probably guess from the synopsis and some basic knowledge of how such books tend to go, it's certainly not revolutionary and is even a bit simplistic, given all the drama leading up to the epiphany.
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heterocissexism, misogynistic language, ableist language, body image issues, mention of borderline disordered eating, mention of precanon parent death, mention of bullying, anaphylaxis (peanut allergy)I definitely wouldn't have picked this up if it wasn't an Amazon First Reads title (and the most remotely-appealing sounding one of the bunch), but it was a decently entertaining read. The whole premise is very cishet-middle-class soccer/ softball mom, which isn't inherently bad but does mean that — apart from a few brief discussions of childhood poverty from one POV protagonist and a handful of race-related comments from a secondary character of color — there's an underlying level of unexamined privilege. While I (mostly) applaud the ultimate message, which you can probably guess from the synopsis and some basic knowledge of how such books tend to go, it's certainly not revolutionary and is even a bit simplistic, given all the drama leading up to the epiphany.